2016 Forecasts And Predictions: More Hiring, Higher Wages, Longer Fill Times

Economy

Jan 7, 2016

Death and taxes may be the only certainties in life, though new year forecasts and predictions have to be close seconds. 2016 is no exception. Here’s a look at some of what we can expect in the months ahead:

Dice, the tech career site, says almost 8 in 10 hiring managers expect to do at least some hiring of IT professionals in the next several months; 27 percent plan to do “substantially more” hiring than they did in the last six months of 2015. No easy task, since half the managers in the survey report time to fill IT jobs is taking longer every day.

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